Contents Fiction 2 Tor 8 Picador 17 Non-fi ction 19 Children’s Books 26 Index 49 Vicious Circle Wilbur Smith ector Cross loses everything when his beloved wife, Hazel Bannock, is murdered. But Hector Hrecognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before: the terrorist group that he believed defeated has re-emerged, like a deadly scorpion from its rock. Hazel has left Hector with a precious daughter who he will go to the ends of the earth to protect. Determined to fi ght back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends from Cross Bow Security and travels to the remotest Middle East, to hunt those who pursue him and his loved ones. For brutal fi gures from the Bannock family’s past – thought long-gone – are returning, with an agenda so sinister that Hector realizes he is facing a new breed of enemy. One whose shift ing att ack and dark, shocking secrets take Hector to the heart of Africa. But Hector does not only seek justice for these crimes. He thirsts for revenge, and he wants it to be bloody. Th e thrilling new sequel to Th ose in Peril from the bestselling author Wilbur Smith! Also available: October Those in Peril FICTION/Thrillers The fi rst Hector Cross thriller! FIC031000 $15.99 | 978-0-330-45250-2 | PB $34.99 978-0-230-75762-2 HB | 6 x 9 1/4 in 2 Pan Macmillan Classic adventure from Wilbur Smith Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages. Find out more about Wilbur Smith at www.wilbursmithbooks.com. All titles: November | FICTION/Historical | FIC014000 | $15.99 | PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in nal art not fi Rage 978-1-4472-2173-9 | 640 pp Previous edition: 978-0-330-30263-0 | MM The Burning Shore 978-1-4472-2171-5 | 448 pp Previous edition: 978-0-330-292276-0 | MM The Triumph of the Sun 978-1-4472-2170-8 | 640 pp Previous edition: 978-0-330-41265-0 | MM nal art not fi Birds of Prey 978-1-4472-2166-1 | 784 pp Previously announced Monsoon 978-1-4472-2167-8 | 980 pp Previously announced Blue Horizon 978-1-4472-2168-5 | 784 pp Previously announced Fiction 3 Christmas at Claridge’s Karen Swan lem Alderton’s got it all: the fl at on Portobello Road, the 34-inch inside leg, an account at CClaridge’s and her mother’s Birkin bag (fi nally). She’s the girl every man wants and every woman wants to be, the eye at the centre of every social storm. But beneath the morning-aft er makeup and the model’s wardrobe, Portobello’s party girl is keeping a secret . When she goes too far one reckless night, she endangers everything that matt ers to her – her home, her job and her adored brother’s love. Her world is on the brink of collapse until she’s off ered a commission refurbishing a villa in the Italian Riviera town of Portofi no. It’s a lifeline and an opportunity she can’t possibly turn down – except Clem’s been there once before and swore, for her own protection, never to return. Because in Portobello she’s been able to run from her past, but in Portofi no, if she dares to go back, there’ll be nowhere to hide. Karen Swan began her career in fashion journalism before giving it all up to raise her three children and to pursue her ambition of becoming a writer. She lives in Sussex, writing her books in a treehouse overlooking the Downs. November FICTION/General FIC000000 $19.99 978-1-4472-3252-0 TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 in Also available: Christmas at Tiffany’s $19.99 | 978-1-4472-0666-8 | TPB The Perfect Present $19.99 | 978-1-4472-2273-6 | TPB 4 Pan Macmillan Saxon – The Emperor’s Elephant Tim Severin he second book in Tim Severin’s thrilling historical adventure series set in Saxon times. Sigwulf, a TSaxon prince who has found himself at the court of King Carolus in France, is summoned by the royal advisor. A rare white elephant has been sent as a gift from the Caliph of Baghdad – and Carolus is determined to send an embassy to the Caliph bearing presents of equal prize to encourage good political relations. Sigwulf and his companions Osric and Walo are sent on a deadly mission to search the wild northlands of Europe for the rarest of creatures for the Caliph, including a giant, lethal wild ox, elusive hunting falcons and polar bears. Every animal they capture must be white, the royal colour of Baghdad. But it seems that someone is trying to prevent the embassy from succeeding. As they set out with their menagerie of creatures across the hot, dusty roads to the Middle East, Sigwulf fi nds them ambushed at every corner... Tim Severin, explorer, traveller, author, fi lm-maker and lecturer has made many expeditions, most recently in search of Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe, and has written books about all of them. Saxon is his third series of historical fi ction. September FICTION/Historical Like him on Facebook at facebook.com/ FIC014000 TimSeverinAuthor $19.99 978-0-230-76443-9 TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 in | 385 pp Also available in hardback: $37.99 | 978-0-230-76910-6 Fiction 5 When Nights Were Cold Susanna Jones As Queen Victoria’s reign reaches its end, Grace Farringdon dreams of polar explorations and of escape from her stifl ing home with her protective parents and eccentric, agoraphobic sister. She secretly applies to Candlin, a women’s college, and her ambitions begin to take shape when she forms an Antarctic Exploration Society. Before long the group are defying their times and their families by climbing the peaks of Snowdonia and planning a trip to the Alps. Yet, years later, Grace is still haunted by the terrible events that took place. She is the society’s only survivor and for years people have demanded the truth. As the Second World War approaches, Grace is fi nally ready to remember and to confess… Susanna Jones grew up in Yorkshire and studied drama at London University. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages and has won the CWA John Creasey Dagger, a Betty Trask Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. May | FICTION/Psychological | FIC025000 | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in | 352 pp PB | $15.99 | 978-0-330-54484-9 | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in HB | $24.99 | 978-1-4472-0056-7 | 8 x 8 1/2 in The Cruellest Game Hilary Bonner Marion Anderton lives the perfect life. She has a beautiful home, a handsome and loving husband, and an intelligent and caring son. But as easily as perfect lives are built, they can also be demolished. When tragedy strikes at the heart of her family, Marion fi nds herself in the middle of a nightmare, with no sign of waking up. Th e life she treasured is disintegrating before her very eyes, but it’s just the beginning of something much worse and altogether more deadly. Th e lie was just the beginning… Hilary Bonner is a full time author and former chairman of The Crime Writers’ Association. She is a former Fleet Street journalist, show business editor of three national newspapers and assitant editor of one. She now lives in the West of England where she was born and brought up and where most of her novels are set. August | FICTION/Psychological | FIC025000 | 6 x 9 1/4 in | 400 pp TPB | $19.99 | 978-0-230-76905-2 HB | $39.99 | 978-0-230-76663-1 6 Pan Macmillan The Sleep Room F. R. Tallis When promising young psychiatrist James Richardson is off ered the job opportunity of a lifetime by the charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland, he is thrilled. One of his tasks is to manage Maitland’s most controversial project – a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. But Richardson begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients, six women. Why is Maitland unwilling to discuss their past lives? And what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? An atmospheric reinvention of the ghost story. F. R. Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has written self-help manuals, non-fi ction for the general reader, academic text books, and several novels. His critically acclaimed Liebermann series (written as Frank Tallis) has been translated into fourteen languages and optioned for TV adaptation. July | FICTION/Horror | FIC015000 | 400 pp PB | $15.99 | 978-1-4472-0499-2 | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in HB | $28.99 | 978-0-230-76081-3 | 6 x 9 1/4 in The Last Tomorrow Ryan David Jahn April 1952. Los Angeles. Aft er thirteen-year-old Sandy Duncan shoots his stepfather and carves a symbol into the corpse’s forehead in imitation of a comic book, district att orney Seymour Markley launches a grand jury investigation into the murder, an investigation that could implicate east coast crime boss James Manning and end his thirty-year career.